Archive for April 5th, 2009

Breaking: Markell to Conduct Two Town Hall Meetings W/State Employees on Monday

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From the Office of the Governor comes word that Gov. Jack Markell will conduct two town hall meetings tomorrow to discuss the proposed state budget with state employees and other interested parties. The meetings are scheduled as follows: Monday, April 6, 10 a.m.: Governor Markell will hold a town hall meeting with state employees and […]

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Poisonous

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c The Poisonous Queen comedycentral.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor

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From Despair to Hope. From Hate to Peace.

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From hearing about three fathers with children, who also were police officers risking their lives for the public good, being gunned down due to the political hate engulfing a young man; to hearing about five children being killed in Washington State by a cowardly father who then took his own life; to hearing about 14 […]

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Words Have Impact

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For people like Dave Burris, politics is just a big game.   When he pushed the GOP’s secessionist uprising talk on his blog, Delaware politics, he probably thought nobody would take that silly bit of GOP agitprop very seriously.  He probably thought that  a little tough talking gamesmanship was called for given the sad shape of […]

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The Fringe Goes Mainstream

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The Fringe Goes Mainstream

A picture speaks a thousand words. Gosh, he looks like a normal young man. Like any twenty-two year old out there. From the Pittsburgh Post Gazzette: Richard Andrew Poplawski was a young man convinced the nation was secretly controlled by a cabal that would eradicate freedom of speech, take away his guns and use the […]

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Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-April 5, 2009

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LEAD STORY-BOSTON GLOBE: Bush Steered Investors Involuntarily into Risky Funds With Predictably Disastrous Results There comes a point where you have you ask yourself, as Keith Olbermann has, whether the Bush Administration deliberately set out to destroy the country. There’s almost no other explanation for stories like this. Shortly before the first signs of the stock […]

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What We Need Around Here Are Better Restaurants and a Decent Tax Base

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I don’t know if gay people find this patronizing (so let me know my gay peeps and I’ll stop) but Smyrna Delaware is in desperate need of a thriving gay population.   According to this kos diary – it seems Iowa is thinking the same thing.   Iowa Democrats have long argued that making the […]

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Does the News Journal enable hate?

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I read the Letters to the Editor now like any typical fan of the National Enquirer does.  With disgust, shock and disbelief.  What I think surprises me the most is the letters that the News Journal posts.  I have seen letters that mock the President with flat out lies. I have seen letters that suggest […]

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QOM

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Do you have a Sunday morning ritual?  Something you find yourself doing every Sunday Morning without fail?

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